Ben (album)
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| Studio album by Michael Jackson | ||
| Released | August 4, 1972 | |
| Recorded | 1971-1972 | |
| Genre | Bubblegum pop/Soul | |
| Length | ?? | |
| Label | Motown | |
| Producer(s) | Hal Davis | |
| Michael Jackson chronology | ||
|---|---|---|
| Got to Be There (1971) |
Ben (1972) |
A Collection Of Michael Jackson's Oldies (1972) |
Ben was the second full-length solo album by teenage pop-soul music phenomenon Michael Jackson. Released in August 1972, seven months after his auspicious debut as a soloist, Got to Be There, the album showcased a Jackson in vocal and artistic growth. A number of the songs on the album are ballads, a genre which was rare in the main Jackson 5 repertoire, but would become a staple of Michael Jackson's over the course of his four-decade solo career.
The album's title track helped separate Jackson from his family and his pop music contemporaries convincing an audience he could belt out a ballad, even though the song was dedicated to a rat, that was eulogized in the 1972 film that gives the album its name. However, no one noticed, as the song became the first of Jackson's thirteen #1 solo hit singles, and garnered both a Golden Globe award win and an Academy Award nomination. The album peaked at #5 Pop and #4 R&B upon its release.
[edit] Track listing
- "Ben" (Black/Scharf)
- "The Greatest Show on Earth" (Larson/Marcellino)
- "People Make the World Go Round" (Bell/Creed)
- "We've Got a Good Thing Going" (The Corporation)
- "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (Adams/Hampton)
- "My Girl" (Robinson/White)
- "What Goes Around Comes Around" (Levinsky/Stokes/Meyers/Weatherspoon)
- "In Our Small Way" (Verdi/Yarian)
- "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" (Cosby/Moy/Wonder)
- "You Can Cry On My Shoulder" (Gordy)
[edit] Charted Hit
- "Ben" - #1 Pop Singles Chart; #5 Soul Singles Chart
[edit] Music samples
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- from Ben released in 1972
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